Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
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When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
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There should be no one place or even a group of places where you should be. quote, 1969
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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
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I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.
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When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
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When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.
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Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.
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Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
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There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.
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As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for months on end. From a quick conversation with your boss or a letter that'll be read by just one person, to a five-minute speech in front of 50 colleagues or cover copy that'll be in front of millions of eyes.
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I think that people love 'Wipeout' simply because it's just plain, simple fun.
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The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
